Sumner County, Tennessee Poor House Records
1875

Report of the Poor House Commissioners this day produced
and read in open court which is received by the court and which is as follows
to wit:

Annual report of Poor House Commissioners with the
expenses that have occurred from the 1st Jan. 1875 up to the 1st Jan. 1876
the whole amounts to about $500. The average number of paupers
16 the average price $31.00, the No. of white paupers 8, their names and
ages and conditions:

Sally Ellis - age 85 years, not able to
work any
Betsey Pollard - age 71, almost helpless
Nancy Phillips - age 35, idiot and badly deformed
Dawes Branch - age 50, in very poor health
Wiley Dickerson - age 60, in feeble health and almost blind
Elizabeth Owen - age 37, sound mind in good health has three
children one 14 yrs old, one three and an infant

Left during this year:
William Kirk and John McAdens, there has been 1 death this year, Green Barnes
died with consumption.

Amount of property on hand 200 bbls corn, a few oats,
1 two horse wagon, and harness, farming implements sufficient to cultivate
the farm, 1 gray mare, 6 head cattle, 19 sheep, 9 stock hogs, 10 fatted hogs
for killing which will make some 1900 lbs bacon sufficient amount beds &
clothing 1 cooking stove & vessels. We have sown on the farm 26
acres of wheat. We have for this year procured the services of James Shaw
as Superintendent for which we have agreed to give him $200.00, he is to
make a hand on the farm and perform the duties as Superintendent, he is to
be paid extra for such clothing as may be needed at the price we have heretofore
been paying.